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Takayuki Tomohara

Takayuki Tomohara

ToyotaDevelopment team member

Timeline

  1. 1982

    Joined

    Toyota

  2. 1984
    Mark II 5th generation
    Mark II 5th generation

    1984–1997Development team member

  3. 1992
    Mark II 7th generation
    Mark II 7th generation

    1992–1996Development team member

    Worked with

  4. 2000
    Mark II 9th generation
    Mark II 9th generation

    2000–2004Development team member

    Worked with

    The Three Dumpling Section Managers

    In the development of the ninth-generation Mark II, chief engineer Hiroshi Ohashi had three assistants under him, and the people around them called them the "three dumpling section managers." The eldest, Kenichiro Fuse, handled the Mark II, the middle one, Osamu Sadakata, the Verossa, and the youngest, Tomohara, the Mark II Blit. The product planning department had no environment that taught you from scratch the way the design departments did, so the only way was to watch and absorb everything yourself. What his mentor Ohashi taught was to hold his own standard (yardstick) and the importance of cost planning. Even for the height of the Blit's open back door, he was drilled to have a yardstick of his own for the best position, and Tomohara drove all kinds of wagons from Japan and abroad, opening and closing the doors again and again to sharpen it.

Connections

  • Hiroshi Ohashi

    Hiroshi Ohashi

    SuperiorMentor

    In the development of the ninth-generation Mark II, Tomohara served as an assistant under chief engineer Ohashi and took charge of the Mark II Blit.

    Tomohara described Ohashi, his manager after he moved to product planning, as "my boss and my mentor", and learned from Ohashi "to have my own standard (yardstick)" and "the importance of target costing".

Profile

From Yamaguchi Prefecture. A Toyota engineer and chief engineer of the second-generation Mark X. His first job after joining the company was designing the automatic transmission shift lever for the fifth-generation Mark II, and on the seventh-generation Mark II he worked on suspension development as a team leader. After moving to product planning, he worked on the ninth-generation Mark II as an assistant to chief engineer Hiroshi Ohashi, taking charge of the Mark II Blit.

Translated from Japanese sources.

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